Amazon, Reddit, Guardian hit by massive Fastly CDN internet outage

Many major sites were offline for up to one hour

Multiple sites including Amazon, Reddit and The Guardian, went offline at around 11am BST today in what appears to be an outage at Fastly, a US cloud computing services provider whose edge cloud platform provides a content delivery network (CDN), Internet security services, load balancing, and video & streaming services to many organisations with a large web presence.

Sites affected include ZDnet, Twitch, Pinterest, Kickstarter, Ebay, The Telegraph, CNN, and Imgur.

On its service status page, Fastly says it is investigating the issue:

"Investigating - We're currently investigating potential impact to performance with our CDN services. Jun 8, 09:58 UTC"

Update12.15 BST

Sites have been steadily coming back online, some switching to alternative providers. Fastly says the issue has now been fixed:
"Monitoring - The issue has been identified and a fix has been applied. Customers may experience increased origin load as global services return.
Jun 8, 10:57 UTC"

Sites affected by the outage, as published on Downdetector, include the following: Reddit, Twitch, CNN, Hulu, New York Times, Amazon, HBO Max, Guardian, Amazon Web Services, FuboTV, Fastly, Target, Spotify, Google, iNet, Blazing Hog, WiLine, Spectrum, Etsy, Twitter, Comcast, Stackoverflow, Fandom, Imgur, Verizon, Cox, Shopify, Vimeo, Grubhub, GitHub, Sling, Quora, Weight Watchers, Mega, Fark, iHeartRadio‎, IGN, AT&T, YouTube, CenturyLink, T-Mobile, Square, Ebay, Paypal, JetBlue Airways, Fox News.